JUNE UPDATES 2: PARODY MAGAZINE #3

Sadly, this blog on a daily basis will come to a close the end of this month. I'm doing most of it in alphabetical order now, but as I mention in the sidebar, I still have holes to fill, so I'll always come back for that, and things always stay on the internet, but here are a few more things I've filled in. Thanks again to Chris Ekman, who has most of them.

The rest I'll have tomorrow. Here are the pieces from the third issue of Parody in September 1977. I don't feel the need to summarize everything so I'll just make the titles highlighted in orange (or underlined or whatever settings you have for links) link to previous parody posts that have texts about them and what the characters' real names are. You can check off these boxes on your seventies references: Rocky, Starsky and Hutch, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Wonderama, King Kong, Gerald Ford, Bobby Riggs, Olga Korbut, Ali McGraw, Gong Show, Jaws, Charlie'a Angels, The Godfather, Polish jokes.

ROCKY
dir: John Avildsen

ROCKIE
a: Walter Brogan

Marlon Brando is in the corner of the first panel, being a contender I guess.

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
ABC 1970-2005

KING KONG
dir: John Guillermin

HOWARD COSELL INTERVIEWS KING KONG
a: Ed Kaye (Alan Kupperberg)

CHARLIE'S ANGELS
ABC 1976-1981

CHEERLIE'S ANGELS
a: John Reiner

This was the original cast of Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

Surprisingly, among the seventies refences, no jokes about Billy Carter or Anita Bryant.

STAR WARZ

STAR WARS (1977)
dir: George Lucas

(Sorry, folks. Every trailer I look for is the same one. Updated ones don't count)

Being Cracked, they were always beating properties into the ground and doing crossovers to sell copies, competing not just with MAD, but with other fan magazines. I already posted the ones they did with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Six Million Dollar Man

I'm sure everyone here has seen the movie, so I won't get into the plot. Those who can't follow along can just click “previous post” and also see all the versions MAD did.
STAR WARZ
Cracked #146, November 1977
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)

Sally Forth was a strip of contemporary Wally Wood.

They knew there'd inevitably be a sequel, and predicted what it would be in the next issue, also drawn by Severin.

Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Kirk (William Shatner) from Star Trek's Enterprise.

And even more...

CY-THREEPIU & ARTY-DITTO: A SOUVENIR ALBUN OF THEIR VISIT TO EARTH
Cracked #148, January 1978
a: Cosa Nostrand (Howard Nostrand)

IF THE CHARACTERS OF STAR WARS APPEARED IN OTHER MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: Powers (John Severin)

This is what I mean by beating things into the ground and crossing them over with everything else. Though Star Wars is one of the few times they didn't do a mash-up with Happy Days.

Cracked #154, October 1978
a: Howard Nostrand

And yet another crossover article after the sequel.

EXPLOITING THE STAR WARS FIGURES TO THEIR FULLEST
Cracked #174, December 1980
a:John Severin

THE SCHLOCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)
dir: Jim Sharman

THE SCHLOCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Cracked #262, May 1991
a: Walter Brogan

The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out sixteen years earlier and didn't make much of an impact when it was first released, but has been a hit since then as a midnight movie, still playing in theaters. It's known for audience participation with members playing roles in sync with the characters and other audience members shouting out their own lines.

Couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) leave a wedding and as they're traveling in the rain, their tire blows out.

Brad and Janet and portrayed here as Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) and Adrian Balboa (Talia Shire). The joke is that it's Rocky because the name's in the title of the movie, even though Rocky is the name of the creation that's featured later.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are at the wedding for some reason, though coincidentally Susan Sarandon played Bette Davis in a TV miniseries recently.

The couple, stranded, stops at a house to use the phone, which is occupied by a group of aliens from Transexual Transylvania led by Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry). The aliens do a musical number called 'The Time Warp' (see below)

Frank N. Furter reveals his newest creation. Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), caretaker of the house, is portrayed here as Chucky from the Childs Play series.

”People would give their right arm” is a reference to how Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf, was used to help make the monster. We're expected to know that.

Dr. Scott (Jonathan Adams), a former teacher of Brad and Janet, has come to investigate the disappearance of his son Eddie, not knowing they're there. He's depicted here as Mickey (Burgess Meredith) from the Rocky series, then as Spock. The castle goes back to its planet, leaving the earthlings to suffer, but here Rocky/Brad and Adrian/Janet escape.